Unfortunately, as this thread has indicated, we didn't do a great job of redirecting to Science & Technology. Based on the feedback of this thread, we have made a few further adjustments that we hope will ease this transition:

Searching for "programming" or "game development" will now return the Science & Technology category

Links to the retired Programming or Game Development categories will now load the Science & Technology category

We have adjusted search so queries for "programming" will return streams that are tagged with the previously mentioned development tags

As we continue to adjust categories moving forward, we will apply the lessons learned here to make things easier for our users. Thank you for the feedback!

I'm utterly disappointed. The game development category was the center of the game dev communty on twitch and now we're told that game development is a less legit community than let's say ASMR? You do realize that people make the games that are streamed on twitch... Where's the love for devs? Pointless and sad that twitch would do this. Also... The science and technology has the tag "non gaming" which is translated to "not game related" in Swedish version of twitch and probably the same in a lot of other languages.

This was really a killing blow for a community that was on the rise but I guess not as lucrative as people licking their microphones.

This needs more upvotes. It's a terrible disservice that people rubbing random shit or licking their mic is considered more legitimate than the work done to make the products that has effectively made twitch possible.

a game development stream does not only include programming, it has art, voice acting, writing, animation, sound design - neither of these fit under "science and technology"...

not having a category also means we cannot grow organically with clips, as there's no searching for the biggest clips under a tag

this is a huge blow to the game development community, and it's really sad seeing as its the source of the games the website is based around. I hope Twitch sees the backlash of this and fixes their mistake by reinstating the category

This is a terrible idea. There is no reason for this. Game development streams aren't going to flourish for being lumped in to a wholly different category. And if someone goes into Twitch looking for a game dev stream, why would they want to check out anything else within Science and Tech? This makes no sense from both a viewer's and content creator's standpoint. This does nothing but hurt game developers.

Youtube makes these kinds of decisions that drives people to your platform. Don't make the sames ones here.

Nobody remembers to tag their stream with Programming or Game Development. And there's no way to follow a tag, like you could follow the Programming community. You really didn't have to make this change.

Not to mention that people sometimes forget to remove their tags; the other day I went on to watch some gamedev streams and 3 out of the 5 top streams tagged "game development" weren't gamedev. Programming and game development were their own games again, this wouldn't be an issue.